Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

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Think Like a Genius
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your
mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you.
Think of things not as they are but as they might be.
Don’t merely dream—but create!
—
Maxwell Maltz
You are a 
potential
genius.Your amazing brain has more than 18 bil-
lion cells, each one of which is connected to and interlinked with as
many as 20,000 others. This means that the number of possible
thoughts you can think is greater than all the molecules in the
known universe.
You have the capacity to learn at incredible rates and to retain
more information than you can even imagine. It is said that 
“when
an educated person dies, it is as if a library burned down.”
This potential
library is contained between your ears.
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